Measurement of health state utilities for economic appraisal A review

Health status measurement for use in economic appraisal of health care programmes is reviewed in this paper, with particular emphasis on utility measurement. A framework for economic appraisal is presented displaying the various components that must be measured, and showing how the three forms of analysis (cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis and cost-utility analysis) relate to the framework and to each other. One of the …